WFS problem with Filter accepting by MapServer

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

There was a partial fix added in cvs. Please see bug 2034.

Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> There is a bug on it 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2034. It will be fixed 
> for the upcoming version (5.0)
> 
> Later,
> 
> Diatchkov Vitali wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> The MapServer 4.8.* that we use as a WFS server has some problems with
>> GeoTools WFSDataStore at the client side. The Filter being produced by
>> GeoTool library looks like:
>>
>> ========================
>> <Filter><BBOX><PropertyName>msGeometry</PropertyName><Box><coordinates
>> decimal="." cs="," ts=" ">3669974.159827543,7034913.012544877
>> 3670967.818494744,7035739.51367928</coordinates></Box></BBOX></Filter>
>> ========================
>>
>> and I suppose it conforms to GML2. But MapServer does not handle 
>> attributes
>> in<coordinates> tag: decimal, cs, ts. If these attributes are encoded 
>> in the
>> filter XML then MapServer returns an exception that Filter is invalid 
>> or not
>> supported.
>>
>> The following filter work fine:
>> ========================
>> <Filter><BBOX><PropertyName>msGeometry</PropertyName><Box><coordinates>
>> 3669974.159827543,7034913.012544877
>> 3670967.818494744,7035739.51367928</coordinates></Box></BBOX></Filter>
>> ========================
>>
>> Is it possible to fix the issue? Sure, it is a problem of MapServer 
>> not of
>> GeoTools library because these attributes are part of spec. And the
>> combination GeoTools + MapServer is quite widespread.
>>
>>
>> We would like to see this problem to be fixed, don't know what is the
>> situation in the following versions of MapServer..
>>
>>
>> Regards ,
>> Vitali Diatchkov.
>>
> 
> 


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